| It is expected that the investment will generate up to £10 million of research income for the university and create up to 100 new jobs in the first five years.
The investment in the College of Life Sciences will create two new divisions, Molecular Medicine and Molecular and Environmental Microbiology, and the development of a cell behaviour and tissue biology group.
The refurbished laboratories will provide the facilities required by Professors Sir David and Birgit Lane, who are returning from their extended sabbatical in Singapore in January to lead the new Division of Molecular Medicine.
“This is yet another exciting development for Dundee, and it is great to be coming back here as the medical research base at the university continues to move from strength to strength,” said Sir David.
“This is the ideal place to be if you are doing this kind of research, and we look forward to continuing our work at the university.”
The investment has been made possible by a £2 million grant from the Wolfson Foundation and additional funding from Scottish Enterprise Tayside.
“This further development of life sciences at Dundee gives us one of the most intensive research environments in the UK,” said Professor Pete Downes, vice-principal of the university and head of the College of Life Sciences.
“We are vigorously pursuing a recruitment programme to add to the range of world-class researchers and staff we have here in Dundee.
“When completed, our complex will be home to one of the largest single-site research bases in the UK.” |
